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Title: Northrop Flying Wing aircraft
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
1943
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1945
1946
1947
1948
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1952
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: The Northrop YB-49 jet bomber prototype aircraft, also called the "Flying Wing" seen at an unidentified airfield.
Title devised by cataloger based on note from Ernest Marquez and identification marks on jet. The Northrop Flying Wing, powered by eight jet engines, was unveiled to the public and media at the company’s facility in Hawthorne on Sept. 29, 1947. -Los Angeles Times, Sept. 30, 1947.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.8 x 12.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
489146
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18988
Subject: Jet planes, Military
Stealth aircraft
Northrop aircraft
Airplanes
Airports
Photographs. (aat)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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